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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-14
The Heat of the Sun.

Speaking of the heat of the sun,
Professor Newcomb says: {" If we call
the chromosphere an ocean of fire, we
must remember that it is an ocean hot
ter than the fiercest furnace and as
deep as the Atlantic is broad. If we
call its movements hurricanes, we must
remember that our hurricanes blow
only about one hundred miles an hour,
while those of the chromosphere blow
as far in a single second. They are
such hurricanes as, coming down upon
us from the north, would, in thirty sec
onds after they had crossed the St.
Lawrence, be in the Gulf of Mexico,
carrying with them the whole surface
of the continent in mass not simply
of ruin, but of glowing vapor, in which
the vapors arising from the dissolution
of the materials composing the cities of
Boston, New York and Chicago would
be mixed in single indistinguishabe
cloud When we speak of eruptions
we call to mind Vesuvius burying the
surrounding cities in lava, but the So
lar eruptions, thrown 1000 miles high,
would engulf the earth and dissolve
every organized being on its surface in
a moment"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-14
MOntreal's Great Churches.

Montreal seems to be city of churches;
indeed, we would say the city of
churches. We know of no other city
so many fine religious edifices. We
have stepped into large number of
churches at hap-hazard of all denom-
nations, and have yet to see the first
ugly or even plain one. The American
Presbyterian church, almost opposite
the Windsor, is an elegant stone struc-
ture, seating | 200 people, and, except
in midsummer, it is filled. 1t has fine
choir and makes great feature of its
music. The pastor, Rev. George II.
Wells, has been here sixteen years.
He is an excellent man, very popular in
his church, among his brethren of the
ministry and in the city generally.
His ecclesiastical relation is with the
presbytery of New York. Every tour
list visits the French Romish church,
which faces pretty little square Just
off st. James street. The work of
building it began in 1926 and lasted five
years. 1t has two towers two hundred
thirty feet high, in one of which hangs
the largest swinging bell in the world &,
weighing over twelve and one-half tons
(24,7S0 pounds) and in the other a
chime of ten bells. To the former
tower we are carried by an elevator-at
least that is what the attendant tells us
when we pay him twenty-five cents to
ascend. But we find that the elevator
stops some twelve or fifteen feet below
the great bell, and that to get the view
of the city for which we have come
up we must still climb seventy-five
or eighty feet. But having made
the climb, we do not regret it. The
view below us is magnificent. The
grand river stretches east or west as far
as one can see. The northern spurs of
the Adirondacks are in view to the
south. The city is all around us, with its
countless spires and towers and grand
business blocks. We have found that
there is no other way to get so readily
good general idea of the city and to
understand its plan and how to make
our way about in it as to take birds
eye view from this lofty point. We re-
greet to see a multitude of chimneys
sending out a cloud of black smoke,
showing that the burning of soft coal
is in vogue even here. This has ruined
the beauty of many of the finest cities
on the continent. Pittsburg, Cincin-
natl, st. Louis, Cleveland, Chicago, not
all in equal degree, but all suffer Sc
verely. The granite of Montreal-none
too bright at the best-will soon be dingy
if the use of soft coal increases. We re-
greet also to see every available inch of
space in the great tower covered with the
names of visitors. No wood has escaped
the knife; no stone within reach of
chalk or pencil. We have never been
able to sympathize with the rage for
leaving ones name everywhere. If
notoriety is sought it is not gained,
for who ever reads these names, or
reading would recognize them? We
remember when in college the veneer
able Professor Taylor Lewis found
some names cut in the desk in his
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-14
The Rocky Mountains for
Recreation.

Why do so few of our young men go
West for recreation? There is no land
where nature recreates man as she
does there. You literally renew your
youth. The climate is iDvigorating be-
yond words. For nervously exhausted
men, for weary brains, there is simply
nothing to touch it. 1 have gone
to the Rocky Mountains thoroughly
well, life a burden and work an i'm
pending horror. In fortnight have
been eating as many meals day as |
could prevail on my men to cook, and
have been glad to fill up chance spaces
in my internal economy with raw bacon.
Yes, many time, after monumental
dinner, when we have gone into camp at
five in the afternoon have l eaten with
relish that most lasting of all pro-
visions-a piece of raw bacon-befOre
turning in. 1t is true some at first
find the rarefied atmosphere of the
mountains trying to chest or heart, and
many also complain of loss of appetite
and loss of sleep; but if the man is
sound in limb and lung, and if he does
not overdo it or overeXert himself at
the very beginning, but does take regu-
lar exercise, in ten days or so all life
seems to awaken within him. He may
not sleep so long or so heavily, for he
has probably camped at an altitude of
eight or nine thousand feet excellent
camping-places are sometimes found
at height of ten thousand feet or
over), and he does not need as much
sleep as though he were at sea-level
He may puff and blow like grampus
as he faces moderate hill, for he has
scarcely realized yet that the atmos-
phere is so rare that he must boil his
potatoes Gf he is lucky enough to have
any for at least two hours-and he will
do better if he boil them all the morn
ing-and that he cannot, by twenty-four
hours boiling, make beans soft enough
to feed to his horse. But he is growing
younger, not older. The world of cark
and care seems very far away, walled
out by the heavy mists that roll up
from the plains. What a fool he
was to bother his soul as he did
with a thousand useless things !-Rey.
W. s. Rainsford, DID,, in Scribner's
Magazine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-14
A Novel Bet.

While am not betting man."
said F. j. Cheney of the firm of F. j..
Cheney e. Co., 81 considered it my
religious duty to make that fellow a
bet. You see he was about dead, and /
guess he would have died before spring
if had not have got him on the bet.
You know some men had rather lose
their life than lose a hundred. Well,
he was one of that kind, and we both
came near being out, but l saved my
hundred and it only cost him ten dol
lars. How's that? He sent for me
one day and said the doctors had all
given him up to die with the catarrh.
told him that l would bet him 500
that Halls Catarrh Cure would cure
him, or l would give him 800 if it
failed. He took the latter proposition.
This was three months ago. You see
how he looks now, don't you Pas well
as any one, and dandy. "-Anerican,
Toledo, Ohio.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-14

and, what was hardest for me to bear,
the boys at school got hold of those
verses and used to repeat them when
ever / came in sight, so that | wished
most heartily / had never heard them,
and shed some bitter tears over the
whole affair when shut up in my room
at home.
1t takes but little to unsettle minis
ter, and father very soon decided TO re-
sign, before he should be asked to leave.
Many sober councils concerning the
family outlook were held around the
fireside in those days, but in few
weeks the cloud lifted and father was
invited to preach as a " candidate :" in
hourishing town down in the valley.
On one occasion he took me with him,
and the Sunday scenes of the town,
the crowds of people moving in differ
ent directions and the chorus of bells
made profound impression on me.
The interior of the church, so different
from our country sanctuary, seemed
very grand, and l was not little awed
when, for the first time in my life,
heard the deep tones of the organ.
Father looked strange enough to me in
the pulpit, but my amazement was COM
plete when he announced this text:
Withdraw thy foot from thy neigh
boris house; lest he be weary of thee,
and so hate thee"
l have never listened to any other
sermon as intently as | did to that one.
1t concerned the duties and joys of life
at home and had in it words of cheer
for young and old, the weary mother,
the anxious father, the grandsire sit
ting in the chimney-corner, the big
school-boy and the little children in the
nursery. There were also words of re-
proof for the drinking-saloon and the
women who delight to circulate neigh
borhood gossip, and the conclusion
pointed to the eternal home above.
That same week father received a
"call "-the people said they didn't care
to hear him any longer on trial after
listening to that sermon-and by early
summer we were well settled in the
new parsonage. Our life was quite diff
ferent there from what it had been in
the old home, and | have often won
dered how Annie could ever have gone
to the seminary and Fred and to col
lege if we hadn't happened to repeat
those verses just when we did.
/ have said that the tramps never
came back. To be sure they occasion
ally dropped down on us for a meal or
two, but they never came to stay and
never made us feel that they owned the
house and that we were merely the serv-
ants. -Henry W. Blade, IN Good Cheer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-14

THE MISSES BRIDGMAN, graduates OF the Mon
roe School OF Oratory and Dramatic Art, pre-
pared TO give instruction In yoice-cuture. express
son,gesture and rendition. They will respond to
calls for associations, lecture courses, literary and
church societies J.. q address. Hardwick. VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-14

C-H-o-o! C-H-o-o!! C-H-o-o!!!-Don't
sneeze, sneeze, hawk, hawk, spit, blow
and disgust everybody with your often
sive breath. If you have acrid, watery
discharges from the nose and eyes,
throat disease, causing choking sensa-
tons, cough, ringing noises in head,
splitting headache and other symptoms
of nasal catarrh, remember that the
manufacturers of DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy offer, in good faith, $500 re-
ward for case of catarrh which they
cannot cure. The Remedy is sold by
druggists at only fifty cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-14
Mistellanp.
Indian Summer.

Down from the blue the sun has driven,
And stands between the earth and heaven
In robes of smoldering flame.
A smoking cloud before him hung,
mystic veil for which no tongue
OF earth can find a name;
And DER him bends the vault of blue,
with shadowy faces looking through
The azure deep profound;
The stiffness of eternity
A glory and mystery
Encompass him around.
The air is thick with golden haze
The woods are in dreamy maze
The earth enchanted seems;
Have we not left the realms of care
And entered in the regions fair
We see in bssful dreams2
The OK let loose to roam at will
Is lying by the water STILL
And on yon spot Of green
The very herd forget to Craze,
And look in wonder and amaze
Upon the mystic scene.
And yonder Lake ontario lies,
As II that wonder and surprise
Had hushed her heavng breast
And lies there with her awful eye
Fixed on the quiet Of the sky,
Like passion soothed to rest.
Yon very maple feels the hush
That trance of wonder, that doth rush
Through nature everywhere;
And meek and saintke there she stands
with upturned eye and folded hands,
As If in silent prayer. Alexander AcLachldj
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-14
Selected Storp.


Morning-glories In the weeds
Pray, who scattered here such seeds2
Careless, wanton we're the hands
Here no friendly trellis stands,
Fence nor arbor, stake nor string,
Where climbing flower can cling.
Upward toward the sun-lit skies
They with due support would rise,
And each pretty bloom afar
Be to lower flowers star.
Pink and purple, white and blue,
Every morning born anew.
Now upon the ground laid low,
They mid weeds and stubble grow,
And their clinging tendrils wind
Round whatever they can find
Grass-blade, plantain, burdock bold,
Stick or stone, wherein to hold.
Here where any foot may tread
Still they blossom undismayed,
And as oft as days begun
Up they look to greet the sun;
Morning-glores sweet and bright,
Pink and purple, blue and white.
He who notes the sparrow's fall,
Clothes the grass and loves us all,
Sees, think, with tenderness
How these dear flowers upward press,
Striving ever toward the sky,
with but weeds to Chamber by.
-Tredsure Tfor
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-14

CANADA has good law which re-
quires every person on whose plum
trees the black knot appears to cut it
out or otherwise destroy it, the penalty
being not less than So for each otfense.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-14
OFT obscure the road that leads to health.
Unmarked by board or sign;
Wisdom avails not, poweress is wealth
To soothe those aches of thine.
But do not despair, with life there's hope,
The cloud conceals the sun;

More truth than poetry in these lines,
as thousands of ladies all over the land
now blooming with health testify to the
great curative powers of DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription, adapted by much
research and careful study to the happy
relief of all those weaknesses and all
ments peculiar to females. Sold by all
druggists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-14

BRINE-sALTING butter is one of the
fads or new-fangled customs of the
day-without sense or reason, like all
other fads. -Erchdnge.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-01-13

IHE New York Legislature last win
ter appointed Commission to report to
the Legislature more humane and
scientific method than hanging, In the
execution of the death sentence upon
condemned criminals. State Senator
Mcmillan has written q letter to that
Commission embod Wing his views,
which would seem to be better In ac-
cord with the better civilization and
the promDtings Of humanity. He says:
"The principal objection to the pres
ent method Is that 1t is primitive In Its
Crign and barbarOus In its effect; II
lacks every element of exactness and
precision. ALI things combine to make
hanging by the neck most bru'Rl. The
thought Of it is absolutely abhOrrent to
tile humane nature of mankind"
SenRt Mcmillan heartily faVOrs the
application OF electricity, because it is
simple, sure and painless. He suggests
that the places for carrying out the sem
tence Of death be limited to Auburn and
sing Sing, and that as soon as the SEN
tence Is pronounced the condemned be
taken to the prison selected, and there
COL fined instead of the county Jail.
This, he says, would be of sufficient
w AeAhAoAh nAA VA
The present method. He adds:
"These executions could take place
In reom set apart for the purpose, with
no appliances save that of chair, with
the hand rest Of each arm properly con-
nected with an electric machine In
which the condemned man might be
seated, and the connection made by
strappinga a hand to the hand rest Of
each arm of the chair. There can be
no difficulty In procuring current Of
electricity of sufficient strength to par
alyze the muscles Of the heart by this
me.hOd. Indeed, the current that is
Used in this city for electric lighting
purposes Is Of sufficient strength to ab-
sOlutely dismemOer the body of any hu-
man being; but current Of electricity
OF sUfti ;ient strength to cause instanta-
neOus death, by passing from hand to
hand through the heart, will not mark
the body in the least"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-01-13

The eleventh annual report of the
BOsTu of Stats Charities has been filed
wi the Governor. DIR Byers, the sec d.
retary, In niI report after reviewing the
condition Of the various charitable In
slitntiOns, takes occasion to protest
Rgatl 81 paIt'sanism In the administTa-
tiOn of the public institutions as exceed
ingy detrimental to the best interests
thereof. He also Cffers the following
suggestions:
Zone OF two courses ought to be-
chosen promptly a. means of putting
aside the unavoidable unrest and aDxi.
ETY. of officers, employees and inmates Of
pu lie institutions and the consequent
disturbance of public confidence In
their management. Either partisan
politics should be put at once and for.
ever away, or II should be made laW
and promptly cOnfOrmed to that at each
political change In the choice of COVER
nor those In charge of institutions
should at once surrender their positions
from top to bottom and require thai
their places be filled with persons In
political sympathy with the executive
Of the State"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-01-13

hon. L. G. COLE, In recent interview
with Times-Star reporter, is quoted as
follows:
What are you lawmakers going to do
this season."
"The most important question is to
advise ways and means to make up the
States deficiency of $1,500000, How this
will be done do not know, but think
that Governor ForakeT's scheme TO trans
fer the Dow tax to the State will never
be carried into effect. 1t would be un
just to the city governments which need
all the money they can get"
'Will the spring elections be abOl-
ished?"
81 do not think SCAT least l am Op-
posed to 1t. The spring elections afford
citizens an opportunity to act iDde.
pendent from party bias and vote for
the best men, This is q liberty that all
enjoy. OF course 1t is little more ex-
peuse, but the American people love
liberty, and usually will have it even
though they are obliged to pay pretty
we'll for It,"
What do you think of the future
prospects Of your party in this State?"
"They are good, for the reason that
free trade sentiment is growing very fast
in Ohio"
But the Democratic Congressman
from this State sustain the tar ffP'
Eyes, and they are fools for doing it,
too. This is done on account of the
wool interest, but that is 10 excuse
They should act from principle"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-01-13

WATTERsON, of the Courier-JOurnal,
emphatlcally denies the silly twsddle
published in the Republican papers to
the effect that he had entered into q
combination with MuTat Halls cad and
NhitelaW Reed ct al 10 elect Blaine in
1888 He say: Surely such stupid In
v ut Ons are unworthy of consideration
intend to M ks leap for W ger from
the roof Of the Gait House. | attended
Mrs. WatteTsOn as ar on her way to
Washington as Cincinnati, and supped
with Mr.. Halstead. as | have been in
the habit Of doing for more than twenty
years. We entertain not single DOliti.
Cal opinion in comm, n, tut are old
friends, who never wait for something
better to talk about than politics."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-01-13

PROF. CAULKINs, of the Chattanooga
University, q Methodist institution, re-
Gently refused to shake hands with
cOlCTed minister, and made dispsTaglI G
remarks about his race. He has been
Investigated and must walk the plank.
In commenting upon the matter the
Western Chri, tan Advocate says:
We only add that the Freedmen's Aid
Society of the Methodist Episcopal
church can not, and in our judgment
will not, continue in its employ any
person who Is capable of showing disre.
spect, under any circumstances, to a
cOlored person because he is cOlOTed
The Methodist Episcopal church Is the
exponent of nObler sentiment, and
will not stultify herself by allowing One
of her great benevolent societies to EN-
ploy as a teacher in one of our schools
any man who stands for the views which
the country has inherited from the in.
stitution of slavery, and in this the
Freedmen's Aid Society is In exact h,T-
mOny with the views of the church.
The black man Is man, and the fact
must be recognized.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-01-13

AFTER an eia0O ate aud exhaust Ve
Dis cns-iOn Of more than three weeks,
the United States Senate passed Ma
tiOnsl Aid bill by vote of thirty three
yeas and eleven nays, and its passage
Is now pending In The House. Petitions
are now being circula ed in this city fOT
signatures, asking Congress to pass the
bill, and In order thai our readers may
have better idea of Its provisions, we
print couple of sections:
"An act to aid in the establishment
and temporary support Of common
schools.
'Be 1t enacted by theSSenats and
House Of Representatives of the United
States Of America in Congress assem-
bled: That for eight years next after
the passage OF this act there shall be
annually RppI Opriated from the money
in the Treasury the following sums, to-
wit:
"The first year the sum Of 81 100000,
the second year the sum Of $40 100000,
the third year the sum Of $l5 GOO 600,
the fourth year the sum OF $l3 100000,
the fifth year the sum of $110000 900, he
sixth year the sum Of 50 COO 000 the
seventh year the sum of 81 GOO coo, the
eighth year the sum of 5000 O0O; which
several sums shall be expended to Sc
cure the benefits of common school edu-
cation to all the children of the school
age mentioned hereafter living In the
United States.
"SEC. 2. That such money shall annu.
ally be divided among and paid out In
the several States and Territories In
that proportion which the whole mum
Der Of persons In each, who, being oi
the age Of ten years and over, cannot
write, bears to the whole number OF
such persons In the United States; such
computation shall be made according
to the census of $780,"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-01-13

On Wednesday Representative Will
liams, of CoshOctOD, introduced House
joint resolution, having in view the
purpose of getting rid Of some of the
redundant elections in this State. Tie
resolution provides fer constitutional
amendment that will change the term
of Office of certain State and county Of
ficeTs. Instead Of changing the spring
elections to the fall, Mr.. Williams pro
poses that the Governor and other State
officers be elected for (. ur years instead
of two, the Secretary of State to head
the ticket on Presidential elections and
the Governor to be elected in the middle
of the Presidential term. The terms
Of county officers will be changed to
conform to this plan.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-01-13

CHICAGO NEWS has the floor: "There
is class Of people In this country who
get up at O'clock in the morning, and
who never get back to bed until 10 or II
o'clock at night; who work without
ceasing the whole of that time, and re
ceiVe no other emolument than food and
the plsinAst clothing; they understand
something of every branch of economy
and labor, from finance to cooking;
though harTassed by hundred RESPONSE
bilities, though driven and worried,
though reDrOached and looked down
upon, they never revolt. and they can
not organize for their own protection.
Not even sickness releases them from
their posts. No sacrifice Is deemed tOO
great for them to make, and no incOm-
potency In any branch of their work Is
excused. No essays, or books, or poems
are written In tribute of their steadfast-
ness. They die In harness, and are sup
planted as quickly as may be. These
are the housekeeping wives of the labor
ing men,"